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The Launch event for ‘the ‘GUERRILLA PILGRIMS’  CD Album will be an Entertainment at St. Matthew’s Church, Grosmont, North Yorkshire to take place at 7.30pm on Saturday 10th April 2010.

The ENTERTAINMENT will include a performance by the well known retired ironstone miner, Tom Lennard [www.myspace.com/tomlennard]  singing songs about the ironstone mining during the Great North Yorkshire Ironstone Rush of the 1830s to 1900 together with other tales and songs of local interest. There will also be a Church Organ Recital by Nicholas Frye, resident organist at St. Ninian’s Church, Whitby and occasional organist at Goathland [fictitiously known as Aidensfield] Parish Church. Tony Morris will then play his Amerynd Flutes occasionally accompanied by Nicholas Frye on violin.

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“Guerrilla Pilgrims” is a collection of improvised pieces played by Tony Morris on Amerynd Flutes accompanied by Nicholas Frye on violin. Culturally, the music is not Native American.

Each piece was recorded in one of the churches of, or close to, the Esk Valley in North Yorkshire. They have splendid acoustic properties and the area is rich in ancient spiritual connections pre-dating Christianity.

The plan of action followed was to sneak in record a couple of pieces and sneak out, hence the title of the Album, “Guerrilla Pilgrims”. Each recording was an act of spirituality for Tony Morris, transcending any categorised religious belief, and also for Nicholas Frye, a committed Christian. You will have to visit the churches of the Esk Valley and guess where each piece was recorded.

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Music:

From Guerrilla Pilgrims Album 

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to be released 2010

Just as ‘French Horn’ is the name of a musical instrument, so is ‘Native American Flute’. The name does not imply that the instrument was made by an enrolled-member of a tribe federally recognised by the United States Government anymore than ‘French Horn’ implies it was made by a person with French citizenship. However, American lawyers, native or not, have got at this so that makers who are not so enrolled have to use the term Native American ‘Style’ Flute. This is clumsy and legalistic and so Tony Morris has invented the word ‘Amerynd’ Flute as a cover all term and uses it for the first time on the Guerrilla Pilgrims Album packaging. The ‘y’ is pronounced as in ‘rhyme’.